Path: news.cambrium.nl!textnews.cambrium.nl!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!192.87.166.28.MISMATCH!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Noons Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Ooooops!.... Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:42:48 +1100 Organization: Noons Inc Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <759e1d92-4452-429b-903e-824b568f9ab1@v11g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <601e7c97-8b6a-4a44-8d71-a55186aaa57b@i6g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> <9838b4c5-33ff-4700-a2c1-801a53ca4722@z17g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> <8a81d2e6-5cce-43d8-b6d7-40952642727b@q9g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <6bce9d06-4149-474c-a912-3ea86b76bece@l18g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:42:49 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="agOz8szPOxPlIZyMvjNVbg"; logging-data="18510"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19AQcqutnLB3aEYvmyqL8hC" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:X2o+eJ4VOeKvaZ/T0S4wL0lyL38= Xref: news.cambrium.nl CarlosAL wrote,on my timestamp of 12/12/2011 7:13 PM: > > Recently I talked to a java developer asking him why their database > had NO constraints or data validation rules. His answer: 'The > appliccation layer takes care of it'... The next thing that hapened > was that we began to receive costs multiplied by 100, date information > from the future, and of course a lot of child rows whitout parent... Oh, come on! All that ACID and data integrity nonsense is soooo last millenia, wth are you so worried about? Another $10M "refactoring" project and all that will be resolved: it's THAT trivial!